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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-10
RKEORER DEAD.

Henry Ward Beecher is dead. The
famous orator of whom all the civilized
world knows more or less, has gone to
his last long home. But a few days
ago and he was the embodiment of all
that was strong, noble and magnificent
in man. Mr.. Beecher was almost "A
years of age. He was born at Litch-
field, Connecticut, June "A, 1913. Three
score aud ten found him with mind
as vigorous as ever, with as keen an
enjoyment of life as ever and with a
devotion to his work constantly increas-
ing. He has lived no life of ease and
freedom from toll, but-has been an in
cessant worker from the time that he
entered Amherst college in 1884 to the
day that he was stricken down by an
attack of apoplexy.
Mr.. Beecher's first charge after hav-
ing completed a theological course in
Lane seminary was at Lawrenceburg,
and in 1880 he was called to Indianap-
oils, where his wonderful power of ora
tory and his general ability soon at
tracted wide attention. He remained
Plymouth church of Brooklyn, then re-
Gently organized, called him to the pas
toTate. His sermons have been printed
rom one end of the land to the other
and the influence he has exerted can
not be estimated.
Henry Ward Beecher was one of the
pioneers of the abolition movement.
Against the monstrous crime of slavery
his whole moral nature revolted. To
him the negro was something more
than chattel to be treated as a mere
article of commerce. Beecher recog-
lied him as brother, animated by the
same desires, susceptible to the same
fears and cheered by the same hopes of
the future state as himself.
The high estimated which Lincoln
put upon the services and powers of
Beecher is illustrated by the mission
to which he was intrusted by the
martyr president. Delegated to turn
public sentiment in England in favor
of the Union cause, the great abolition
orator was met by the prejudice and
open hostility of the governing classes
In that country. BY his intrepidity,
logic and eloquence, he conquered the
opposition of most of the influential
men of Great Britain, and undoubtedf
ly prevented the interference by Eng
land in behalf of the south at subse-
quent period in the rebellion.
He always took Il leading part, also,
in the movements which were designed
to elevate the moral and social condi-
ton of peoples or classes. Temperance
and woman suffrage he especially ia
vored, and no man spoke more earnestly
and impressively against corruption in
politics, and the prostitution of public
Office to private gain.
As a pulpit orator Beecher stood first
among American clergymen. To many
people one of the great charms of his
sermons and of his delivery has been
their lack of conventionality. No il
lustration was too homely, provided
that it was apt for his purpose, and in
nearly all his sermons humor has had
a prominent place. He saw no objec-
ton to an appreciative laugh when he
made some clever hit-indeed he
oftimes aimed to provoke a laugh and
probably would have been dissatisfied
had he not succeeded.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-10

rHE YET0 YOTE.

The following interesting facts re-
garding the vote on the dependent PEN
sion bill, after the veto, is taken from
the National Tribune. The demo-
Gratis are denoted by stars:
The ayes were l3S republicans and 81
democrats. The latter were all from
the north except Taulbee and Wolford
of Kentucky. The noes were all DEM
ocrats-40 from the northern states
and IS from the south. OF the Union
soldiers az voted aye and voted no.
Forty-one confederate soldiers voted
solidly no.
The vote by which the bill originally
passed the house was $50 to IS, so it APP
pears that the following named MEM
bers-all Democrats-changed their
votes on the measure and sustained
the veto:
@Adams. #Bacon, #Stahlnecker and
%Viele of New York; ~BOyle, #Curtin
#Ermentrout, scott and #Sowden of
Pennsylvania; *Burnes, *Dawson,
"Hatch and #Stone of Missouri; *Cobb
and %Ward of Indiana; %Dough-
erty of Florida; %Eden, %MOr-
rison and Springer of Illinois;
#Fisher, Michigan; #Gay, louisiana;
#Gibson and SHAW, Maryland; HAL,
Iowa; *Hill, *Outhwaite and %Warner,
mour, Connecticut-29. IF all these
had voted as they did before. the bill
would have been passed over the veto
by 204 ayes to So noes.
OF the above % who changed their
votes, the following were not reelected
last fall, and will retire from congress
March 4: adams and *Viele, New
York; #Boyle and #Curtin, Pennsylva-
mia; #DaWson, Missouri; #Cobb and
ward, Indiana, #Eden and morrison,
Illinois; %IIall, Iowa; #Hill and #War-
ner, Ohio; seymour, Connecticut.
From the last paragraph it will be
seen that Mr.. Morrison and thirteen of
his associates had reason for changing
their votes, as they are all out OF job
and have been hanging around the
White House for months past in hopes
of getting appointments of some kind.
1t is well known fact that Morrison
has been figuring for commissioner I'M
der the interstate law, and it was open
ly charged in the house that the others
were all in the same boat.
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HHRRIMAC AND MONITOR
Story of One of the Great Naval
Engagements of the World.
A FAMOUS SUNDAY FIGHT.
The Gray Bearded Pilot Of the MerrI
mac Describes the Battle.

The Confederate Ram AIerrimac Accom-
plished Greater Work of Destruction
in single Half Day Than Amy Other
War Vessel Ever Built-But She Could
Not whip Capt. John Eriesson's Mon
itor-BattIs of The Iron cIads, March
Q, 1862.
On the shores at the mouth of the blue
Chesapeake this time OF year the air is mild
as June. Salt breeze and pine forest ningle
and give it bracing fragrance. Fig trees and
fringy cape myrtles live outdoors the year
around. It is one of the most delightful
spots Of the earth Visitors to Old Point
Comfort and Fortress Monroe hnger on day
after day. Travellers stopping at the great
hotel east of the fortress sit hour by hour in
the verandas Anon they change and take a
sail over the bright waters with the captain.
Everybody calls him the captain. He is q
hale, gray bearded man with a keen eye and a
strong frame. He has been about the Chesa-
peake and Norfolk bay more years than a
good many of our readers have lived Year
after year, too, while the loiterers sit and
gaze, now at the blue sky, now at the softly
rolling breakers which are even as blue, they
ask the captain to tell them the story of the
Merrimac and the Monitor fight.
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But the Congress was under shelter Of the
Union batteries at Newport News, and they
opened fire and drove the tug of. It is said
they did not see the white flag Then the
Merrimac poured red hot shot into the poor
old ship again. Presently she left her and
bore down upon the Minnesota.
In this interval, the crew of the Congress,
what there were left of them, escaped to
shore in the boats. Next morning; of the 4S4
brave men and true who had composed her
crew, only half answered to their names at
roll call. The rest were killed. wounded and
missing.
There had come into Hampton Roads on
Friday, March 6, the naval ship St. Law
renee, a sailer. SEEING how the battle was 60
ing, she had herself towed toward the
grounded Minnesota, and presently she her
self grounded Together the two helpless
vessels waited the onslaught of the iron
beaked monster. There seems to have
been inexplicable ignorance Of the channels
on the part Of the Federal pilots. The Roa-
noge, the Minnesota and the st. Lawrence
all ran aground.
The ST Lawrence fired broadside at the
Merrimac, which did not the slightest harm.
The MerFimac fired one single shell at the st.
Lawrence. 1t went through the wooden ship
like bolt of lightning Then the ST. Law
renee. hors du combat, stole off like a
whipped animal up toward Fortress Monroe.
1t was getting dark The ram and her at
tendant gunboats drew off from the fight and
steamed TO Sewell's point, where they
anchored. The hot shot the ram had thrown
last into the Congress had been for the pur-
pose of setting fire to her. This object was
accomplished. The battered ship burned to
the waters edge. About midnight the fires
reached her powder magazine, when she
blew up with tremendous roar, and that
was the end of the Congress.
"Hnrper's Pictorial History says of the Mer-
rimac: mo vessel that ever fioas ed had ever
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Ehe little Monitor followed in her wake
ask when the Merrimac turned her iron beak
fo. yard, there was the cheese box directly
gIss of the Minnesota opened on the ram
bnF she was invulaerable. l. her sides had
been perpendicular, some of the fifty great
shots which struck her from Capt. Van
Brunt's guns on the Minnesota, must have
penetrated her.
As the ram approached, the little Moni-
tors turret guns began TO revolve and fire
The ram answered with a tremendous broad
side. One eonical shot from the huge Arm
strong gun penetrated the Monitors tGrret
part way, but the bolt broke of and re
manned sticking between the bars Of railroad
iron, bent and fattened The relic is still
preserved Other shot from the ram few
around and over the Monitor without effect.
The little raft steamed around and around
her ponderogs foe, seeking point OF attack
But there was none. They pounded at each
other tremendously, neither hurting tho
other.
The Merrimac, finding she had made no inn
preston the Monitor, turned her guns once
more upon the Merrimac and made a savage
attack, which told terribly. At that moment
the little Monitor steamed mp and placed her
self between the rem and the Minnesota. The
MerTimac changed her position and once more
the big ram and the little turret ship grappIed
The MeFTiiaAc grounded and Tic Mime
sofa trained her guns directly upoa Der.
She got afioat and turned towards Norfolk,
the Monitor after her
Suddenly the Merrimac turned ike an ami
NAL lnadde1ed and headed with all her force
directly at the Monitor, seeking TO run her
down. The iron beak grated over the level
deck, and the little raft came up serenely
ready for fight again The Merrinac was
more damaged than her antagonist. One
heavy shot penetrated the armoF of the ram
There was more maneuvering and more can
nonading at close quarters, when suddenly
the firing creased.
The Merrilnac and her attendant feet
Esaaed mp the bay. At the same time the
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-10

The greatest enemy to mans happi-
ness and success is sickness, more es-
pecially those lingering, wasting dis
eases which sap the vital energies of
man, clouding his life and incapacita-
ting him for business. Those afflicted
with such diseases will do well to call
on DR.. Lyon at the Hotel Coolidge.
His long and successful medical prac-
tice in dealing with all manner of
chronic and lingering diseases has
placed him far in advance of the old
line medical practitioners. His NOTICE
is success, and his name is the tails
men which has given hope to thous-
ands of sick and dying in our land. Call
on him at the Hotel Coolidge. Consul
tatiOn free.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-10
The JudieIal ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

The legislature, at its last days ses-
sion, made some very radical changes
in the judicial apportionment of the
state, the entire text of which we have
not yet been able to learn, but this
much, however, is known, that Lyon
and Coffey counties now compose the
Fifth Judicial district. Greenwood
has been annexed to Butler county,
and those two form a new district, and
Sedgwick county forms a district by
itself. The time of the session of the
district court in this county we have
not been able to learn, further than
that the next sitting will be in May in
stead of April. This new division is
something that has long been wished
for by the bench of the state. It re-
duces the length of the sessions of the
court, reduces and equalizes the work
of the judges, and gives them more
time to consider their decisions,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-10
now TO XIII A BOOB.

There is great deal of good sense
in the following, which we find in the
Olathe Mirror:
There are apt to be several peculiar
tiles, disappointment and animadver-
sions in the city enjoying a real live
boom, and not the least place to feel
the subtle influence of these things. is
the Office of a weekly newspaper
Just as one fact is written and settled
along comes some report of a change,
or some other transaction that appar-
emily takes all the sense out of what
has been already stated for fact. Not
the least of these annoyances is the
folly of some men who offer their proper
ty for stated price and then back out
and demand a larger advance when
they are taken up and asked to sign a
binding contract. There is no surer
way to kill boom than this, because a
buyer will get disguised and leave for
some place where people have more
sense. a case in point occurred last
Monday: a gentleman offered a piece
of property for 81 200. He was taken
up by an agent, but he backed out and
asked 81 400. He was again offered his
Irice. but once more backed out and
asked 81 900. The buyer then told him
to go to grass and left for Kansas City
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OF live stock and farm implements,
near Stafford, Chase county, Kansas, on
the A. T. & S. F. railroad
TUESDAY, MARCH 18TH, 1887.
In order to close partnership we will
sell, without reserve, 40 head of horses
among them being % grade Normans,
mostly mares, one seven-eights
Norman stallion, five years old,
good bone and action, sure
foal getter; $50 high grade shorthorn
cattle, consisting of about go head
of cows, due to calve this spring, and
about so head yearling heifers, 10 head
of two-year old steers, and 5 thorough
bred bulls, 100 head of stock hogs; farm
implements, consisting of wagon, har-
ness, plows, etc.
TERMS: Eight months time on all
sums over $40, on notes with approved
security, bearing interest at per cent
from date. On all sums of so and I'M
der, cash in hand.
Lunch served at ~ III.
S. 7. BENNETT & Co.
L. f. PRUYN, Auctioneer.
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IN the case of the congressman de
facto and the congressman de jure
from Rhode Island which has just been
decided in the house is another illustra-
ton of impositions permitted to be
practiced ON the people and their
money. W. A. Pierce has held the
seat the entire session, during which
time it has been contested by Mr.. Page.
Pending the settlement of the matter
Pierce has drawn his salary and en-
joyed all the benefits of the Office. 1t
was decided Monday that Mr.. Page
was elected, and he was therefore
seated. Now it transpires that Pierce
has drawn his salary and Page is also
entitled to full pay under the rules,
hence he will draw $4,000 and other
perquisites for only five days work.
Thus it appears that the people lose
over $1,000 because of existing rules
and because one man was allowed the
emoluments of position to which he
was not legally entitled. Such an alb
surd system of paying both contestants
to seat makes it possible for profess
sional politicians to find in it money
making business, and it therefore in
vites contests. 1t should be abolished
without delay.
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and steamed down the bns

dent Lincoln visited him, and wept at
sight Of the blinded hero who had done so
much. The gallant officer finally recovered
his sight. Nobody else In the Monitor was
hurt
The Minnesota had been terribly shattered
A shot from the Merrimsc had exploded the
boiler OF the tug Dragon, scalding several
men. The Minnesota, by throwing over
board some guns and other heavy articles,
and by attaching several more tugs to pull
and strain at her, got out of her mud bed
Monday morning and went up under the
sSslter of Fortress Monroe.
In the two DAYS fighting the Federal
furces lost nearly 400 men and two valuable
SHIPS; the Confederate forces lost thirteen
rosu. The Monitor was struck with shot
twenty two times one of which damaged the
pI.4G house somewhat. The Merrimac's long
irUu bow had been twisted when she ran into
the Cumberland. Two of her guns were
broken, her smoke and steam pipes and flag
staff were shot away, and as she steamed up
Norfolk bay it was seen that she sagged at
the stern.
"But what did the Monitor and Merrimac
do nexti' They never came together again. ]"
said the gray bearded captain. 'I'hey watched
around there a good WHILE the Merrimac pro-
tecting Norfolk and the mouth of the james,
the Monitor protecting the Chesapeake. Once
in while each one would come out and
scream around with her steam whistle awhile
mighty sassy. pretending to challenge. But
if the other seemed likely to take it up that
one backed off in a hurry One was afraid
and the other dassent,'
The Merrimac was destroyed in May fol-
lowing by her own commander. Josiah Tat
nall, TO prevent her frcm falling into Federal
hands. The Monitor fDundered in gale of
Cape Hatteras, the last day of the year 1861
and was lost.
The fight of the Merrimac and Monitor has
taken its place as. one of the great naval ell
gagements of the world
The employment of vessels wholly armored
with iron revolutiouized sea warfare
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-10

PLAsTERERs to the number of two
hundred in the cities of Pittsburg and
Allegheny have left the Knights of
Labor and joined the Plasterers' Ma
tional union. This movement away
from the Knights of Labor is becom-
ing more and more marked. Five
thousand dollar salaries and luxurious
apartments furnished with Wilton car
pets and costly bronzes for the execu-
tive officers of the organization do not
strike the Woodworking rank and file
as entirely proper.
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MERRIMAC AND MONITOR.
from 'sI,ossing's Civil War ~

The captain was the pilot of the Merrimac
that day OFF Hampton roads, March 9, 1862.
The Merrimac was a fine new steam frigate.
When the United States officer, Commodore
McCauley. set fire to his own governments
navy yard at Norfolk and burned the ships,
the Merrimac was among those fired and left
to consume. This was April 81, 1861.
But the Merrimac was not entirely de
stroyed. She was burned to the copper line.
Then she sank To raise her again, to fit her
out as war vessel, was not a task of very
great difficulty for the Confederate govern
ment. Her exterior pattern was changed
somewhat In armor plating her, and other
wise fitting her for naval warfare, the Con-
federates affixed to her bows long, powerful
iron beak. In brief, when the refitting was
done, and the Merrimac was turned out
Of the Norfolk or Portsmouth navy
yard she became the steam ram Vir-
ginia, the terror of every United States
ship afioat. Steaming up, head on, she was
able to send her long, swordfsh beak crashing
through the sides of the strongest wooden
ship. Thus, attacking vessels one at time,
the Virginia was prepared to vanquish the
whole United States navy and commercial
marine. What is more, she had been fitted
up in the United States governments own
navy yard, Of good iron and steel belonging
to the nation.
The new pattern given to her was the idea
of Lieut.. John NJ Brooks, himself United
States naval officer who had taken the Confed-
crate side. The battering ram or false bow ex-
tended out ahead of her 50 feet She had two
powerful engines below the water line. Her
roof and sides were covered with oak over two
feet thick, and upon this was plated iron 8
inches through. The ram in front was also
composed of oak and iron. The vessel was
armed with several great guns for those days,
carrying shot of from so to 100 pounds, and
120pound shell.
Such was the ram Virginia. She is better
known, however, the world over, by her for
ner name, the Merrimac, and that is the
name which will be used in this story.
Last but not least, she was directed by ex-
United States officers men vino had been
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TIE inconsistency of the late Kansas
Legislature was shown in a beautiful
manner in the changing of the name of
st. John county to that of Logan, and
almost in the same breath rejecting w.
j. Lea for insurance commissioner, be-
cause, forsooth, he was bitterly opposed
to st. John before the country ut large
had discovered how utterly base he was.
This was crime that many good re-
publicans were guilty of, and it looks
much as if the republican party were
more to blame in supporting such a
scalawag than Mr.. Lea was in refusing
to do so, even if he did have to bolt.
If the republican, or any other party.
fails TO put decent men on their ticket
decent and competent men should not
be held responsible if they fail to sup
port the nominees.
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PubIIc sale.

will sell at public auction at the
Rees M. Morgan old farm, on Dry
creek, four and one half miles south
west of Emporia, on
WEDNESDAY, MARCH Is, 'S7,
commencing at 10 o'clock a. m, the
following property, to-wit: Five COWS
with calves by their sides, 8 cows with
calves, two-year-old heifers, year
ling heifers, yearling steer, l span of
good work mules, seven and eight years
old, brood mares with foal, 2 year
ling colts, from Kirkendall's horse,
three fat hogs, 8 shoats, 1 wagon, 1
Weir cultivator, shovel pillow, 1 stir
ing plow, l Deering mower, Buckeye
mower, sulky rake. sleigh, vice and
anvil, two sets double harness, 1 sad
die, side saddle, cook stove, heat
ing stove, and other articles too nu-
merous to mention.
TERMS OF SALE-AIl sums of S. and
under, cash; over SIS, credit of twelve
months will be given on approved Sc
curity, without interest if paid when
due. If not SO paid, interest at the
rate of II per cent from date of sale
will be charged. Five per cent off for
cash. Free lunch.
L. F. PRUYN, WILLIAM j. REEFS.
AuctiOn0aF
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BOON ADTRRTTsTNG.

Topeka is going into the scheme of
advertising herself in Mrs. Frank Les
lies illustrated edition. The PROPOSE
ton was submitted to Wichita, but.
well-there is advertising and adver-
Using Red editions, extraordinary
subterfuges, blows which prove upon
investigation to be lies, ETC., etc, ETC.,
don't catch anybody in this age worth
capturing. The truth, the simple
truth, put in way that takes and
holds, is what counts, and the local,
the home paper, is the only, the sole
vehicle, outside of individual repre-
sensations through personal letters or
bona fide communications to foreign
papers, that can command the atten-
ton and respect of such as possess the
wherewith to build up city or sustain
a community.-Eagle.
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THERE is gentleman in this coun-
try who has been in prison for some
time. In the old country at Vienna,
his home, he is called Evil Eyes" In
this land he goes by the name of ''Herr
Most He will be out of prison on
the 28th of next month. His business
is that of professional agitator. AS
soon as the doors are opened he will
resume business. Imprisonment has
not diminished his stock in trade.
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ROYAL b. YOUNG, a son of Brigham
Young, was among Miss Kate Fields
auditors at Kansas City, and in an in
terview after the lecture disputed many
of Miss Fields statements, among 9TH
ers that the republicans bought Nor
mon votes in Colorado. THAT is I'M
true, said Mr.. Young, because every
good Mormon is, and must be, demo-
crat. This is his religion and part of
my religion to be Il democrat
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-10

If the Chicago ministers who refused
to send a message of coincidence to the
family of Mr.. Beecher had more Chris
tian charity and less sectarian preju-
dice they would more nearly copy after
the Master whom they profess to